Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan
by Fariba Nawa
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Afghan-American journalist Fariba Nawa delivers a revealing and deeply personal explorationof Afghanistan and the drug trade which rules the country, from corruptofficials to warlords and child brides and beyond. KhaledHosseini, author of The Kite Runner and AThousand Splendid Suns calls Opium Nation "an insightful andinformative look at the global challenge of Afghan drug trade. Fariba Nawa weaves her personalstory of reconnecting with her homeland after 9/11 with a very engagingnarrative show more that chronicles Afghanistan's dangerous descent into opiumtrafficking...and most revealingly, how the drug trade has damaged the lives ofordinary Afghan people." Readers of Gayle Lemmon Tzemach'sThe Dressmaker of Khair Khanaand Rory Stewart's The Places Between will find Nawa'spersonal, piercing, journalistic tale to be an indispensable addition to thecultural criticism covering this dire global crisis. show lessTags
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Travel, Sexuality and Gender Studies
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- 958.104 — History & geography History of Asia Central Asia: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzebekistan Afghanistan 1919-
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